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Published: November 16, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

Description

Topics include New England milk market and its different
marketing orders; New York milk strike and New York milk market;
responsibility of state governments in improving circumstances for dairy
farmers; Federal Milk Order; effect of the New York milk strike on the
Republican Party; Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; differences in milk
production around the country; consumption of dairy products; loans for milk
tanks; opinions on dairy price supports by various Vermont farm
constituencies as reported by Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, Elmer
Towne; Abernethy "Self-Help" bill; effects on Vermont farmers of a New
England wide milk marketing order; proposal to extend the present export
price assistance program to dry whole milk, and to evaporated milk; report
on Eastern Milk Marketing Order; price war in the Boston market; growth of
Hood Co.; Whiting Milk Company's economic difficulties and proposal to have
operating cooperatives buy it; Southeastern New England milk order; milk
production and pricing in Connecticut.